Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Munich, Germany; Berlin, Germany; Hamburg, Germany; Frankfurt, Germany.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in digital advertising (e.g., branding and performance), consultative sales, business development, or digital marketing, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- Experience working with advertisers, agencies, or clients.
- Experience in managing partner organizations (e.g., agencies, sell side partners).
- Ability to communicate English and German fluently in to engage with clients in the region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building trusted advisor relationships with C-level executives, and managing multiple projects, business leads, and internal stakeholders.
- Experience with Google Ads solutions, expertise in video advertising (e.g., AI-powered performance and video, CTV), and understanding of competitor landscape across traditional and digital media advertising.
- Ability to sell/propose creative technologies across a landscape of various decision makers.
- Ability to develop joint business plans in complex, ambiguous environments, influence/collaborate across organizations, and drive business success for the customer and Google.
- Strong strategic and tactical thinking skills, systems thinking, and the ability to align strategies to deliver customer business outcomes.
About the job
Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and our customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.
As an Industry Manager for Agencies and Partners, you will build and cultivate strong business partnerships with one of our agency network partners and/or independent media agency partners to support their customers' success in their Google advertising investments. Your objective will be to work collaboratively as part of your team to jointly drive media business growth, enable transformation, and be responsive to all agency needs. You will build relationships with relevant agency stakeholders and drive growth across the Google product portfolio through agreements (e.g., specialized key performance based incentives), joint business plans, and media, data and tech initiatives that are focused on driving a transformational agenda against media strategy and planning, buying, and optimization. You will work closely with multiple Google sales teams to exchange knowledge regarding your partner and client needs and develop scaled training opportunities.
Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and industry thought leaders to the world's leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google's full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you'll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market-shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google.
Responsibilities
- Engage and influence key decision-makers, including C-suite executives, building trusted relationships to understand their core business challenges and strategic priorities.
- Lead the development of joint business plans, aligning with customers on ambitious goals and establishing shared accountability to unlock transformative growth opportunities.
- Design and pitch powerful, data-driven Google solutions tailored to customer needs, leveraging in-depth knowledge of Google’s advertising offerings and compelling storytelling, while effectively navigating objections to secure investment and exceed business growth goals.
- Demonstrate Google's value clearly by measuring campaign results against customer objectives and competitors' offerings, and sharing data-driven insights that shape customer strategies and reinforce the partnership.
- Own the customer's growth trajectory by proactively identifying and cultivating a robust pipeline of new opportunities, leveraging insights and proven success to expand the partnership.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
